Perhaps it's because we fly into battle differently. However, When I first looked at the Source for this My first reaction was that I would get killed using it. I don't understand what you mean by this. Could you please clarify? I think it would be more helpful to lowly players like me if we looked...

Ammo weapons are supposed to be more powerful for their level than non-ammo weapons, to compensate for the ammo cost and inconvenience. Since the last rebalance, when most ammo was made significantly lighter and cheaper, and with availability now usually not a problem, I think many ammo weapons are...

Thermo weapons tend to be the best bet for the late game -- they have good damage, good WMD, good availability, and tritium injectors / lithium boosters make them heavily upgradable. However, I'm starting to feel like the thermo cannon is by far the best out of the lot, perhaps too much so. Let's co...

Destroying Black Market stations and selling the illegal consumer goods to a Victorian nightclub gets you 150% of the value of 30% of the items, for 45% of the total value. Plus, you get some of whatever other items they had. Buying them from Stations and Shipyards and selling them gets you (150 - ...

I would not destroy Black Market stations unless I could not dock with them (due to hotel bust and no source of ID). The shipyards are useful for dock services, especially when installing a waste cannon or overleveled devices sooner than others. Black Markets are also a good place to sell some mili...

I find the best thing to do with Black Markets is to get a smuggler's hold, then blow up every Black Market or illegal drugs (I forget the name) station you find. You get a bunch of free illegal goods to sell to the Startons. It's like getting paid to fight crime! Plus the Molotoks are pretty fun to...

Oh I have must have been misled. I remember reading a wiki weapons guide on the transcendence wiki I think that kept hammering the point that "particle is king" early on. It's fine for the first third of the game, but past Katherine's Star it loses its shine pretty quickly. The wiki advice is proba...

I am still using SmartCannon at the Battle Maximus system. Is that unlucky or is it hard to find an omnidirectional particle weapon? Particle weapons aren't that great, for the most part. They have great range, firing rate, and projectile speed, it's true, but they're pretty low damage, especially ...

Actually, a PD device that deflects kinetic rounds is (in the real world) the only possibility to not let them hit you. If you put a laserbeam or other high energy beam on a piece of metal, rock or whatever heavy item that is coming at you with great speed, it will not stop that item or blow it to ...

Regarding other PD ideas: how about a linked-fire weapon that throws out a huge weight of short-ranged fire (call it chaff) alongside the player's primary weapon? One has only to look at Shrike's LOTOR to realize how valuable just putting out a lot of projectiles is for protecting a ship from incomi...

Titanium ore isn't worth much, but you should be able to sell it at Commonwealth stations and a few others. Different stations want different things. Inventories never restock, and the more a station has of a given good, the less it's willing to pay for more of that good, so eventually your little t...

In a way, but not like solar panels and side-mounted weapons are. :) Autons are autonomous ships that fly around with you. Go ahead and use one next time you find one; the worst that'll happen is it turns out to be faulty and you'll have a weak ship armed with a laser shooting at you. Most autons ar...

If the item is externally-mounted, it'll say that among the other flags on the item, where it says stuff like "WMD4", "cloud", "omnidirectional", etc. If I recall correctly, solar panels are an early example of externally-mounted items, and they're subject to the same ease of damaging that externall...

Later in the game you can find linked-fire weapons that can fire at the same time as your main weapon. However, in addition to eating into your energy budget, they tend to be externally-mounted, which means they can easily be damaged (irreparably in most cases) by enemy weapons' fire. Otherwise, yea...